Wait, is that the movie where racism makes Sandra Bullock fall down the stairs?
Wait, is that the movie where racism makes Sandra Bullock fall down the stairs?
It's definitely a song that improves within the context of the film — Day has to walk a very fine tightrope in that movie, and gives a pretty incredible performance - she has to be completely distraught over the kidnapping of her child, but not to the point of unbalancing the light comic tone of the film. She's never…
You misspelled Streisand's name in the title of the article.
Agreed — Russell's films may be anarchic, but it's a controlled anarchy, and always in the service of the subject (even when the subject is as patently goofy as Lizstomania). His films may sometimes be lurid (especially when religion is in the mix), but they tend to revel in sexuality, and while the viewer might be…
Pedigree, schmedigree - Matthias Shoenaerts delivered 2 of the finest performances in recent memory in both BULLHEAD and RUST AND BONE, and his English is apparently flawless.
Sorry, this doesn't hold a candle to the original for sheer audacity and black comedy that reverberate with novelist Richard Condon's own acid satire, and Angela Lansbury's ferocious take on the mother role could swallow Streep's performance for breakfast and still have room for a cocktail. Demme's remake remains…
Great movie, but even better are Brahm's other films included in the box set from Fox, including the masterpiece thriller HANGOVER SQUARE
Hard to think about pop-culture goodbyes without recalling the first time I saw THE WIZARD OF OZ, before it got a bit diluted with all the riffs and sarcastic reenactments that led me into a jaded adulthood. "I'll miss you most of all, Scarecrow," still kind of gets me.
I've never been able to make it through this film without falling asleep. In fact, I used to keep the DVD handy as a last-ditch cure for insomnia.
I'll admit that "Arthur's Theme" is idiotic and terrible, but even worse is Stephen Bishop's "It Might Be You," from TOOTSIE, which Dave Grusin and Alan & Marilyn Bergman concocted as some kind of poisonous homage to Christopher Cross. Two fine films marred by irretrievably awful songs.
Nathan: MOMENT BY MOMENT was actually available for a time on Netflix streaming, and there is a print circulating — they screened it at Cinefamily in Los Angeles a couple years ago, and it is pretty unbelievable.
Thanks for that - it's almost as if anything not CGI is relegated to some half-understood dream world like something from the Dark Ages.
CLOVERFIELD? No love for JAWS or POLTERGEIST?
For the record, PULLING is a remake of a British sitcom created by Sharon Horgan and Dennis Kelly.
WOLF CREEK is a decent film, but if you really want a disturbing Australian horror film of recent years, I'd recommend THE LOVED ONES (2012), which takes a much more direct route to squirmy terror, with far less dependence on coincidental plot contrivances.
Might've been interesting to note that Boorman was developing a live action version of THE LORD OF THE RINGS but when that fell through he moved to EXCALIBUR as a default — much of the costume and production design used in the film was originally intended for his LOTR.
Might've been interesting to note that Boorman was developing a live action version of THE LORD OF THE RINGS but when that fell through he moved to EXCALIBUR as a default — much of the costume and production design used in the film was originally intended for his LOTR.
a couple of favorites:
a couple of favorites:
Why is BRAVE considered forward-thinking by having its princess say no to the choice between three utter trolls? That's more like "sanity" than "progressiveness" in my book.